WASHINGTON STATE LAW CHANGE FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT EFFECT ON NFA LAW LETTER

[BigSpruce]

I recently received two FORM 3's that were marked  'DISAPPROVED VIOLATION OF STATE LAW'  The same law letter format has been approved MANY times in the past and most recently on 9/21/21 for another post item.  I am assuming that the new criteria is a direct result of the recent laws passed by the WA State Legislature and signed into law by the governor.  RCW 10.116 going into effect on 7/25/21.  Has anyone else ran into this new criteria.  The new law states that  'A law enforcement agency may not acquire or use any military equipment' of which machine guns are specifically categorized as.  They must return or destroyed all of them by 12/31/22.  So far attempts to contact NFA have been futile.

Any insight by other WA State NFA Dealers or elsewhere would be appreciated.  RCW 9.41.190 allows the possession of machine guns by federally licensed dealers in WA State.

Thank you in advance for any insight, please feel free to PM me if more comfortable.

Thank you,

 

[Spartan]

What type of agency wrote the letter?

I was worried this would take effect. 

[BigSpruce]

Municipal Police Dept. in WA State

[Ryo]

That law was such a stupid thing. The police can't use military surplus stuff (minus medical) so now WA state tax payers have to pay for stuff they need when they could have gotten it "free". Spartan pointed that out to me a few months ago.. I too was worried that this would include any MGs. 

I am wondering what Bellevue police dept is going to do.. If I recall correctly they are running some beautiful HK 416s.

Well let us know what you find out..  Wish I thought to ask the IOI that was just here a couple hours ago about this.. Since I have his contact I'll just send him a email about it to see if he knows any details.

[Thumpy]

truthfully I think if a state won’t let it’s citizens own mgs the police shouldn’t be able to own them either. Hope laws like that motivate ffls an police in that state them to start advocating 2a stuff for every one an not just say well we are better then them an get to have this stuff.

Edited November 24, 2021 by Thumpy

[Ryo]

32 minutes ago, Thumpy said:

truthfully I think if a state won’t let it’s citizens own mgs the police shouldn’t be able to own them either. Hope laws like that motivate ffls an police in that state them to start advocating 2a stuff for every one an not just say well we are better then them an get to have this stuff.

I don't look at it that way.. reason being is that when you start limiting stuff at any level, the anti gun people are winning.  It's just one more step into the coffin.

Issue is once things are taken away.. it is more difficult to get those rights back. I'm very tired of having to fight the anti gun groups on the stuff they try to pull in the legislation. It's remarkable the amount of lies they do to push their agenda through.

[Ryo]

Got a response from my IOI.

"Due to the new state law, you cannot conduct transfers of “military style” weapons to law enforcement within the state of Washington; however, you can still conduct transfers to out-of-state law enforcement entities."

So this is likely why it got denied. That really sucks. I guess the police can't buy M1 Grands.

[Ryo]

Just wondering if any one goat around this issue?  Finally got my Disapproval letter.